Business

Managing Business Activities
Health and Safety in the Workplace
Introduction
Health and safety at work are important for several reasons. a) Employees should be protected from pain and suffering. (Obvious - we hope!) b) An employer has legal obligations for the health and safety of employees. c) Accidents and illness cost the employer money. d) The company's image in the market-place (to which it sells goods and services, and from which it recruits labour and buys in other resources) will suffer if its health and safety record is bad.
This lesson looks at the law and best practice relating to health and safety at work.

Lesson objectives
After completing this chapter you should be able to: a) Carry out risk assessments as required by legislation, regulation and organisational requirements ensuring appropriate action is taken. b) Demonstrate that health and safety regulations and legislation applicable in specific work situations are correctly and effectively applied. c) Carry out a systematic review of organisational health and safety policies and procedures in order to ensure they are effective and compliant. d) Carry out practical application of health and safety policies and procedures in the workplace.

1. HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION
In 1972, a Royal Commission on Safety and Health at Work reported that unnecessarily large numbers of days were being lost each year through industrial accidents, injuries and diseases, because of the 'attitudes, capabilities and performance of people and the efficiency of the organisational systems within which they work'. Since then, major legislation has been brought into effect in the UK, most notably: a) Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; b) the regulations introduced in January 1993 implementing EU directives on Health and Safety.
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